Madonna stans have been freaking out on Twitter this week after rumors that the singer will re-release her long lost 1985 single “Gambler” on digital platforms this Friday. If the reports are true, it will be the first time the song will be available to stream or buy online.
@madonna 's 1985 hit single Gambler is scheduled to be released this Friday to digital and streaming platforms and is the maxi single??
Considered a lost single, it looks like it has been brought back to Warner, as this is being released under Rhino / Warner??#Madonna #Gambler pic.twitter.com/lFJGZWaO3m
— Matt #MadonnaAustralia (@GregvsMatt) December 5, 2022
“Gambler” was recorded for the movie Vision Quest in 1985.
The song, written by Madonna and produced by John “Jellybean” Benitez, was released by Geffen Records in the UK as the second single from the film’s soundtrack after “Crazy for You”, where it peaked at #4.
A music video featured clips from the film, including Madonna’s much talked about cameo appearance as a club singer at a local bar.
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“Gambler” was never released as a single in the US, however, because Madonna’s record label, Sire, was worried it might take away from the promotion of the singles from her Like a Virgin album, which was also released around the same time.
The singer has only ever played the song live once. The performance happened on her first national tour in 1985 and was recorded for Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour.
Since then, “Gambler” has more or less languished in obscurity, with only Madonna’s most diehard fans remembering it and wanting, needing, waiting for the day when it might become available to stream.
If the rumors are true, come Friday, the newly remastered synth-pop dance track will be made available to a whole new audience, nearly 40 years after it was first released. Who knows? Maybe Madonna will include it on the setlist on her next tour, which internet sleuths say could be happening in 2023.
Now, some tweets…
We should make it chart again
— p🎧ul (he/him/his) (@jedip13) December 5, 2022
#MadonnaMonday #Madonna #Gambler #VisionQuest pic.twitter.com/Bn9vECpkWT
— Dawn Keypunch (@Robogiggles) December 5, 2022
I heard that the unreleased song Gambler is finally going to get a official release Friday December 9th 2022. I found mine as a bonus track on this CD maxi single. I think it’s the only time it was released. @madonna @Rhino_Records @MadonnaPosters @GregvsMatt @Madonnafanzpage pic.twitter.com/mcSZOwAANs
— Terry Turner (@tturner1234) December 5, 2022
Are you a #gambler ? 😉 #madonna pic.twitter.com/WyodjD78f7
— MIKE KILLMON (@MikeKillmon) December 5, 2022
I am once again asking gay clubs to please stop playing top 40 popular songs! My gay ass wants to hear bops & deep cuts from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s! Why are y’all not playing Janet, Kylie, Madonna, Whitney, Mariah, Missy, Donna, Diana like come on pic.twitter.com/BTWvBwyUad
— 💫 (@heyjaeee) December 4, 2022
Forget about the awful remixes being put out lately, let’s get Gambler back in the UK chart
— Sh72 Hughes (@Sh72H) December 5, 2022
Bloody hell!!! It’s taken it’s time,gonna be streaming that baby 24/7 ❤️
Next up, on the set list of the new tour please. #Madonna #Gambler pic.twitter.com/rmEYeN8P1u
— Brian (@Brian_JTC) December 5, 2022
All those stans begging for #Gambler every time Madonna releases something, it is your time to shine and stream it 24/7. https://t.co/ZK08xmRDOe
— ❌ (@Simon_phd_boy) December 5, 2022
Learn more about both “Crazy for You” and “Gambler” in the Queerties Award nominated podcast Inside The Groove.
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abfab
Yes, millions of Madonna stans are freaking out. Those are people from the break-away republic no one wants to talk about anymore.
Ronbo
Attacking Madonna fans… why? Age, wisdom and talent are not the enemy.
johncp56
Madonna stans ????? who is stans
dannysax
A word that combines Fans and Stalkers, so “Stans.”
Chrisk
Ha. I remember going to see Vision Quest. Vaguely remember her cameo. Damn. Has it really been that long. Wow.
Major crush on Mathew Modine back then. Now I’d pass him on the street and wouldn’t look twice. Damn getting old..
abfab
Jiminy Glick had a thing for Mathew Modine too. He’s going to be on SNL this week. Thank god that show needs good guests.
ScottOnEarth
While not freaking out, this is great news. ‘Gambler’ is one of Madonna’s under-appreciated songs. Her performance of it during the The Virgin Tour is epic and I hope the rumors of its pending digital release are true!
jackscott
I always liked this song. This is when Madonna actually recorded fun and dance-able music. We need this type of stuff from her again 🙂
storm45701
The song is already available on iTunes on the Vision Quest soundtrack…. and has been for over ten years…
Terrycloth
Stan’s. ? Who says that…? Misprint.song sound old repetitive lyric..forgttable..rather hear causing a comotion
Ronbo
stans: an extremely or excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan. Used primarily by know-it-alls and extremist editors unhappy with life; also: attempting to create an exclusive and separate reality superior to all others.
Usage: “We googled Madonna’s inferior fanbase only to learn that the elderly (yuck!) are no longer able to dance thru the entire concert. Stans! Can’t live with ’em, can’t and make ’em venmo my nudies for funky hats and moustache wax!”
DCguy
@Ronbo,
Awwww, one of the right wing troll account’s screenames couldn’t find anything political to whine about, so just sort of vaguely attacks older people? People who like music? Madonna fans?
Come back to us when you’ve figured it out precious.
Ronbo
DCguy is so extreme that he thinks an adult progressive Democrat is right wing!?! It’s time to ask yourself, DC, are you so self-centered that every opinion, every joke, every comment that isn’t yours is from a “right wing troll”? (that is Cam’s line)
Come back to earth. Such extremism isn’t helping anyone. I’m just poking fun at our editors for pushing the crazy kids here into attack mode… you and abfab take the bait every single time!
Pier
Oh no a fluff magazine website mentioned Madonna… let the meltdowns commence over how horrible she is etc etc etc. Clutch those pearls girls MADONNA
bsg1967
I already bought the single in 1985 were it was released as a single in Australia. Release causing a commotion for jeffrey.
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CBHaynes
WOW, first got the same 1987 remix of Into the Groove this year and not Gamble from 1983 or 84. Wow! ]
cynthia_foxe
honey she has lots most fans after her tragic re shaping of her face and her hyperbolic antics to stay young and relevant……sad ole lady